Yes, of course. Look at Amish communities. Largely self-sufficient and thriving.
People who haven’t tried it greatly underestimate the amount of work though. I’d recommend dipping your toe in with some gardening at home first. Jumping in the deep end will usually lead to failure and disillusionment.
Need more than WiFi and vegetables
I for one am quite fond of not having to concern myself with my poop beyond the push of a button
There’s an African farmer that came up with a septic tank that fed a methane generator.
That’s pretty cool, actually. Got a link?
it’s offline right now. please mail poop to restore service.
Made me chuckle. Nice one.
I do have a link: https://youtu.be/2UsNbsjpuLc
Like weed.
The funnest vegetable
Unless you think farts are funnier. Then it’s Jerusalem Artichokes.
We call them fartichokes. Roast a tray of them, eat up, and the hilarity ensues.
I’m thinking you don’t understand how many acres it takes to feed a few people. I’d be scared shitless trying to feed my skinny family of 4 on a single acre, and that’s assuming a constant water supply.
OK, looked around a bit, yeah, we’d starve on 1 acre.
Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price and on one acre I doubt you’ll have extra of anything. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.
If you’re not squeamish and can get enough extra space with an enclosure, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.
All it takes is people getting together and organizing to do a thing. Co-ops exist all over the place. Also plenty of cults have communes. Those kinds suck tho.
Yeah the kool-aid is terrible. I mean come on! How do you fuck up kool-aid?!
There are a few in my country and theyre filled with the craziest hippies
In Australia they’re now called ‘intentional communities’. That might help with searching. Some are religious but some are not. Quite a few are just science/sustainability based.
Community gardens and Internet cooperative are the operating phrases you’re searching for
Also eco village and co-housing. There are plenty of videos showcasing eco villages on youTube.
Depends on how many people you’re envisioning in your commune, but you’ll likely need more than a one-acre garden. And working that garden is quite a bit of work!
Do you have access to the ground water?
We run on well water.
Grow vertically and invest in moving that water. Let people live on your land for free but require they work.
If you really want help, you almost need to dox yourself by giving pretty specific location info. So please don’t do that.
Land matters are very complex in any country. In the USA, laws around land use can vary from one block to another. 50 states and many matters are delegated from each state to their counties for implementation.
My point is, yes, you may be able to arrange such a community.
It can be a tricky legal, political and social affair that is very specific to your exact site.
So plan on a huge learning curve and learning how to find the right kind of legal and organizational advice.
What?
In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high?
OH thank you I understand now. Unfortunately, no.
I can’t believe that worked.
Ikr!? Didn’t even have to shout!
With an llc and enough contracts, sure. Have “investors” pay into some cooperative to buy land/startup, then everyone is somehow working for that co-op which pays for everything?
The wifi rollout thing is tricky… Especially because who do you entrust the administration to? Technically whoever is managing it can see everything everyone in the subdivision does online, and since it’s all shared, could be doing packet sniffing to de-obfuscate your traffic and if they’re untrustworthy, potentially be stealing your PII. They’re already going to have a lot of your PII simply from knowing who you are and where you live, but basically having your entire internet history at their fingertips no less.
It’s part of why I refuse to move in somewhere that someone else controls the connection, literally for that reason. I want my own private connection because I don’t trust other people with this.
I once had a deal with my landlord to provide wifi to the other tenants. Of course I didn’t snoop, but it’s not like they had any real assurance of that. You’d think there might be some privacy concerns but nobody had a problem except when the internet was down. I think in general people don’t tend to care about that, though if you do there’s the option of using a VPN.
A friend joined a group of people to build a co-op in a house about ten years ago. Shouldn’t be any different today.
